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Tacna's Return to Peru: A Historic Overview

Tacna was occupied by Chile after the 1880 Battle of Alto de la Alianza. The 1883 Treaty of Ancon stated that Tacna and Arica would remain under Chilean control for ten years, after which a plebiscite would determine their fate. Chile avoided holding the plebiscite for 49 years of occupation. In 1929, the Treaty of Lima was signed transferring Tacna to Peru but requiring Peru to relinquish its claim to Arica. On August 28, 1929 representatives from Peru and Chile officially signed over control of Tacna at a ceremony, returning the region to Peru after 49 years under Chilean rule.

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Tacna's Return to Peru: A Historic Overview

Tacna was occupied by Chile after the 1880 Battle of Alto de la Alianza. The 1883 Treaty of Ancon stated that Tacna and Arica would remain under Chilean control for ten years, after which a plebiscite would determine their fate. Chile avoided holding the plebiscite for 49 years of occupation. In 1929, the Treaty of Lima was signed transferring Tacna to Peru but requiring Peru to relinquish its claim to Arica. On August 28, 1929 representatives from Peru and Chile officially signed over control of Tacna at a ceremony, returning the region to Peru after 49 years under Chilean rule.

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the Return of Tacna to Peru:

Tacna was occupied by the Chilean army after the Battle of Alto de la Alianza fact happened
on 27 May 1880 with the Treaty of Ancon signed on October 20, 1883, ordered as Tacna
Arica, remain in power all of Chile for ten years. Also upon completion of the decade a
plebiscite to define the fate of both hands Peruvian provinces in southern country should be
conducted.

Chile is so far passed over 10 years to avoid making the plebiscite. Which could perform after
49 years of occupation. To recover these territories the Peru beginning negotiations that
resulted, submit ti issue to the arbitration of the President of the United States and
representatives of USA, Peru and Chile. It was in 1928 during the government Legufa
negotiations resumed and after many and complex negotiations to end the signing was
achieved on June 3, 1929 the Rada Gamio-Figueroa Larran Treaty, also called Treaty of Lima
where Peru's government had to give up the province of Arica, the province of Tacna to Peru.
This historic act of reinstatement was made and met on Wednesday 28 August, 1929.


On August 28, 1929, the city of Tacna embanderada dawn and in the streets all the people
that make up the province of Tacna meet: Sama, Locumba, Calana, Pachia, Ilabaya,
Candarave and Tarata. Then concentrate on the Plaza de Armas and the passage Vigil,
carrying red and white rosettes and ribbons. Delegates of Peru and Chile gather at the house
where the Law Commission was going to make the plebiscite in 1926 it is at 2 Afternoon
worshiping in the Legal House, Peruvian delegates, Pedro Gamio and Jos Rada worked,
General Jos Ramn Pizarro, Arturo Chavez Nunez, Angel Gustavo Cornejo and Monsignor
Mariano Holguin with delegates from Chile, Gonzalo Robles and Alberto Serrano, who signed
the "Act of Tacna Delivery".

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